Quotes from Lysa TerKeurst

Instead of always looking to get fulfillment from my loved ones and the other blessings in my life, I can simply enjoy them for what they are.

think C. S. Lewis said it best: "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

Whenever you say yes to something, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your yes is worth the less.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

The decisions you make today matter. Every decision points your life in the direction you are about to travel. No decision is an isolated choice. It's a chain of events. If you choose wisely, your future will reflect that. But if you don't choose wisely, the decisions you make now will take you to places you don't want to be later.

The one who obeys God's instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow.

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along.

Never is a woman so fulfilled as when she chooses to underwhelm her schedule so she can let God overwhelm her soul.

Wounds. Broken places. Possibility. Change. Steps toward holiness. Imperfect progress. The hurt in those who hurt me---their underbellies. Grace. Love. Me looking alot more like Jesus than I did before. And to discover through all this seeing---being unglued isn't all that bad.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

In the quiet of an early morning, honesty finds me. It calls to me through a crack in my soul and invites the real me to come out, come out, wherever you are. Not the carefully edited edition of the me I am this year. No, honesty wants to speak to the least tidy version of the woman I've become. The one I can't make look more alive with a few swipes of mascara and a little color on my lips.

To trust God is to trust His timing. To trust God is to trust His way. God loves me too much to answer my prayers at any other time than the right time and in any other way than the right way. In the quietness of all that doesn't feel right, this truth does.

Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads of guilt with grace.

The truly thankful person is a truly peaceful person.

I want to learn how to be more thankful for what I am, than guilty for what I'm not.

Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.

Instead of always looking to get fulfillment from my loved ones and the other blessings in my life, I can simply enjoy them for what they are.

Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.

Faith is learned through life.

Each and every thing I say yes to sets the pace of my life.

The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths.

Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.